Small and Medium-size Businesses (electronic surveys)

Patent Application Forecasting Program
Part 1: Eligibility and Contact Verification
1. Is your company considered to be a subsidiary of another
company with headquarters in the U.S.?

2. If your parent company completes this survey, will it
consolidate your patent filing activity information into its
statistics?

Yes (CONTINUE
WITH QUESTION 2)

Yes

No (SKIP TO
QUESTION 3)

No (SKIP TO

(CONTINUE

WITH A)

QUESTION 3)

A. If applicable, please provide us with the contact information for your Parent Company:
Contact Name: _____________________________________________
Organization Name: _____________________________________________
Organization Address: _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
Phone Number: ______________________________________________________
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3. Are you able to report aggregate patent application statistics
for your entire company, including its subsidiaries?

Yes (SKIP TO
QUESTION 4)

No (CONTINUE
WITH B)

B. Please list up to three of the largest-filing subsidiaries of your company for which you have
not included filing data:
Contact Name Organization Name Phone Number
1.
2.
3.

C. Please refer to the contact and address information on the cover of this booklet. Should any
information be inaccurate, please provide corrected information below.
Name: ____________________________________________________________
Job Title: ____________________________________________________________
Phone Number: ____________________________________________________________
Company Name: ____________________________________________________________
Part 2: Patent Application Activity
To serve you in a timely fashion and at high levels of quality, the USPTO relies on reliable forecasts of
future patent filings to allocate its resources efficiently and effectively. Your answers to the following
questions are very important!

Domestic Filings
4. Please report the number of provisional patent application filings submitted or expected to be submitted
in the years indicated below.
Application Filings
20XX 20XX 20XX 20XX
1

National provisional applications

1

A provisional application for a patent is a type of application filed in the USPTO. It allows filing without a formal patent
claim, oath or declaration, or any information disclosure (prior art) statement. It provides the means to establish an early
effective filing date in a non-provisional patent application and automatically becomes abandoned after one year. It also allows
the term “Patent Pending” to be applied.

5. Please report the number of national non-provisional utility patent application filings submitted or
expected to be submitted in the years indicated below.
Application Filings
20XX 20XX 20XX 20XX
2

National non-provisional applications

2

These are the most common applications filed at the USPTO. National non-provisional utility patent applications are filed for
inventions or discoveries of any new, useful, and non-obvious process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of
matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. A national filing is one submitted under the laws of a country and/or the
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. Please include all non-provisional utility application filings subject
to a filing fee including a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) filing to reopen prosecution and continue examination of
an application in which prosecution is closed (e.g., the application is under final rejection or a notice of allowance).

6. Please report the number of PCT international application filings submitted or expected to be submitted to
the USPTO Receiving Office for the indicated years.
Application Filings
20XX 20XX 20XX 20XX
3

International applications
3

International applications are those filed under Chapter One of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Filings Abroad
7. Please indicate the number of patent filings submitted or expected to be submitted to patent offices other
than the USPTO in 20XX through 20XX.
Application Filings
20XX 20XX 20XX 20XX
National applications filed abroad
a. European patent office (EPO)

b. EPO member countries’ offices (Please see country list below)

c. Japan patent office

d. All other offices

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Switzerland
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Germany

EPO Member Countries
Denmark
Hungary
Malta
Ellas
Ireland
Macedonia
Estonia
Iceland
Monaco
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Finland
Liechtenstein
Norway
France
Lithuania
Poland
United Kingdom Luxembourg
Portugal
Hellenic Republic
Latvia
Romania

San Marino
Sweden
Slovenia
Slovakia
Turkey

8. Please report the number of PCT international application filings submitted or expected to be submitted
directly to the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 20XX
through 20XX.
Application Filings
20XX 20XX 20XX 20XX
International applications filed with International Bureau
(WIPO)

Part 3: Patent Valuation
9. To help gauge the value created by patents granted, the USPTO is interested in estimating the fair market
value of a U.S. patent. Please select the range that best represents the fair market value of your patent or
the average fair market value of all your patents. For the purpose of this survey, fair market value is the
price at which the patent would change hands at the present time between a willing buyer and a willing
seller, with both having reasonable knowledge of relevant facts.
Less than $500K

$3M - $3,499,999

$500K - $999,999

$3.5M - $3,999,999

$1M – $1,499,999

$4M - $4,499,999

$1.5M – $1,999,999

$4.5M - $4,999,999

$2M - $2,499,999

Greater than $4,999,999

$2.5M - $2,999,999

Part 4: General Feedback
10. In the space below, please briefly describe any industry trends that may affect your patent application
submissions in the future and/or impacted your ability to accurately report application activity on this
survey.

11. Finally, we are interested in learning about any difficulties you had completing this survey. In the space
below, please comment further on general issues that arose during the course of completing this
questionnaire.

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